The Vanishing of Old St. Albans

Old News

St Albans

We are not the first to worry about our heritage buildings being demolished. When Frederick James Worsell's shop was sold to Boots, the chemists, in 1899, F. G. Kitton, the artist who produced the above drawing, wrote a long piece urging the people of St Albans to sign a petition asking for the building's features to be preserved.

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Redbourn, Hertfordshire, in 1904

St Mary's Church, Redbourn
Sketch by F, G. Kitton, 1904

As the first stage in a full upgrade of the Redbourn pages I have created a new page Redbourn in 1904 which includes the above sketch, an account of Redbourn written in 1904, and two postcards of Redbourn High Street from the same period. I have also reorganised the page on St. Mary's Church and made appropriate changes to the main Redbourn page. Further improvement to the coverage of the village will be carried out when I have time.